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Blogging on AdPulp since 2005, Dan Goldgeier is a Seattle-based freelance copywriter with experience at advertising agencies across the U.S. He is a graduate of the Creative Circus ad school, and currently teaches at Seattle's School of Visual Concepts. In addition, he is a regular columnist for TalentZoo.com. Dan published the best of his TalentZoo.com columns in a book entitled View From The Cheap Seats: A Broader Look at Advertising, Marketing, Branding, Global Politics, Office Politics, Sexual Politics, and Getting Drunk During a Job Interview. Look for it on Amazon in paperback and e-book editions.

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Danny: If you, as a stockholder, sued both Eisenberg AND the Disney Board of Directors (who are all financially answerable to stockholders) for financial mismanagement and poor decisions that cost you money, you might stop this idiocy. Otherwise, what happened keeps on happening. (i.e. Hewlett-Packard). People don’t seem to understand the Board of Directors of a company is there for a reason: OVERSIGHT. They are often PAID for this. This is one reason they are accountable to stockholders for mismangement, and this kind of dealing at Disney is certainly mismanagement. Wonder if Eisenherg would have been such a complete ass if HIS money was at stake instead of yours and thousands of other stockholders?

Danny at AdPulp reviews James Stewart’s Disneywar, a book on the (mis)management of Disney. One aspect really gets Danny goingIn one section, Stewart recounts in minute detail how Disney ended up paying $280 million in severance to former company Chair…

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